BP said a containment cap placed on its leaking oil well has captured thousands of barrels of oil. Watch a clip from a Coast Guard airplane hovering above the drill ship. Angel Gonzalez reports.

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I ... BP said Saturday they've managed to capture more than six thousand barrels ... of oil ... from a leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico ... that's about ... one-third of the amount of tissue is estimated to be escaping ... the news comes after the company placed it carefully ... owing more than a month of preopen tends ... to stop one of the worst oil spills ever ... these deals ... taken from the Coast Guard plane on Saturday afternoon ... shows the reader response vessels gathering around the drillship ... the Discoverer Enterprise ... the ship's port near the place where the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig was ... before it exploded and sank ... one of the month ago ... the ship is directly above a mile deep well ... and that's where the key to supporting all the oil is collected from the damaged well ... a huge plane next to Pichette ... the race hundreds of thousands of cubic feet of natural gas to capture the bottom of the ocean ... and burned when they reach the surface ... Ross Watson Crude ... store on the ship's ... a reminder ... that not all that oil ... leaking from the sea floor is being intercepted ... Sts